Email-based stat tracking

How it works

Absolute stats

Let's say you're tracking your weight. You probably think of your weight as an absolute number
that moves around over time. So, you'd send an email to [email protected] with this subject:

weight 175

Over the next few days, you send in some more stats:

weight 174.6
weight 173.0weight 173.5

Each time you send a stat you'll get an updated chart back in your inbox. The last chart
would look like this:

Relative stats

Relative numbers like +5 and -2 work better when you think of a stat as a series
of incremental ups and downs. To reuse the poker example from above, it makes more
sense to log how much we won or lost in a session as relative number rather than as an absolute number.

So, you could send several emails with one stat per subject.

poker +5
poker +0
poker -5

Or, you could send several
stats in one subject line and separate them with semicolons (;).